Thanks for noticing it.
I'm still hoping that Mackx could modify the Xournal app to work with this version.
As my DR is in the office just now (and I am not) I'd be interested to see if the fbreader port can just installed as is or (as I assume) it too will need some mods as it would just save converting my mobi books etc)

installed it, indexed for a while and now i can't sort by modified date! thanks for the cruel april fools joke! It does look nicer but I have to find a way to sort by modified date and not date added... (and yes i realize it's beta )

Is it possible to completely disable indexing? Apparently I have a lot of documents on my SD card, as indexing took over 3 hours the first time. More annoyingly, it also adds around 45 seconds to the boot time.

I haven't tested much yet, but I did notice some problems with the menu not always showing up when pressing the menu button (pdf, in landscape, page flow, full screen), sometimes the screen only flashes, sometimes only the outline of the menu is drawn.

you can disable the thumbnail generation in the advanced settings:
settings (icon with tools in it) => advanced settings (icon with tools and a + in it)

That could have helped for the first index run, but unfortunately doesn't for the boot delay.

I hope iRex will provide a development rootfs image and the document-viewer-plugins for this beta firmware, because a version of the djvu plugin that I compiled for the DR800 (not yet released), doesn't work on this DR1000 firmware, and I can't see what goes wrong.

Is it possible to completely disable indexing? Apparently I have a lot of documents on my SD card, as indexing took over 3 hours the first time. More annoyingly, it also adds around 45 seconds to the boot time.

Indexing a large book collection may take a while (a few seconds per book) but once added to the device, it should not extend the boot time considerably.

Do you see the "Indexing..." splash screen during these 45 seconds?
Do others experience an extra long boot time too?